The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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WALTER HUNTER, a Pittsburg street car con-
ductor, has been at the business since Nov. 4,
| and in that time has found six pocketbooks.
! containing sums Of $40 and less, and has found
| the owners too His last find was note Tor
| $1,000.
THE editor of paper published in Munich
prints in ten copies of each issue an order for a
| cask of Bavs.rian beer. The scheme has proved
| to be the biggest sort of an advertisement, and
no subscriber ever thinks of asking the editor TO
| stop his paper
ROBERT c. ANDERSON, 65 years old. who left
Rochester, n. Y. last week, after selling his
| farm arrived in Boston on Monday night, hav-
! ing made the entire distance, he says on foot.
| He expresses an intention of tramping out to
| Des MoineS UowaJ, where he has relative
! living, and explains that he wants to see the
| country
AN ACTOR who had already spent month in
! jail, in Brooklyn, on a charge of assault, was
sent back for another space last week, accord
ing TO local published reports, because the dis
trict attorney was not ready for him. though a
dozen persons have all along been ready to
prove that he was 100 miles from the place
where and when the assault was committed
HENRY DAMlrE a well-to-do German farmer,
near Edwardsville, Ill, quarreled with his wife
who, like himself, was high tempered and in the
fight that followed injured her severely. He
was arrested and imprisoned. while his lawyer
IL,
and hurried to the prison, and found Damme a
corpse. He had hanged himself in his cell.
Mrs. SARAH BRAGG, who while serving as a vol
uuteer nurse during the civil war. contracted a
rheumatic complaint that had deprived her of
the use Of all the joints OF her body except one
at her neck and those of her wrists died in the
city hospital at Rochester, y. Y, on Monday,
after seventeen years of helplessness, her death
being caused by an attack OF what was pro
nounced measles.
A CLERGYMAN in Massachusetts town adopt
ed the extreme of caution in keeping his revolt
yer locked up in box under his bed, and it so
happened that on the only occasion when he
ever had to Use his deadly weapon the disturb
ers of his midnight SAUNDERS carried off their
booty before he had time to open the box and
get out his siX-shooter.
JOIN ROBINSON, of Creek Centre, Warren
county, n. y, last Sunday arrived at church
rather late wearing a pair of new boots which
sQueaked frightfully. Not wishing to disturb
the congregation he left the boots in the veSti
bule and entered in his stocking feet. Upon
looking for his boots after the service he found
that they had been stolen.
SOME Boston people are poking fun at Mayor
O'Brien because he recently addressed the
Queen of the Hawaiian Islands as III. r. H
kapiolani, =" instead of H. NJ. Kapiolanin This
| recalls the fact that when King Kaakaua was
in Chicago few years ago, Mayor Carter Har-
riSOn made a formal speech to him, which he
closed with the recommendation that his ma
jesty go over TO the hotel now and wash up
WHAT may be hoped is death-blow to piano
| drumming is giver by NJ. Gounod in this pun
gent letter to Camille See: Dear Sir-You ask
me my opinion as to the share of piano study
! which should be allowed in the education of
young girls. A reply seems to be most easy
the least time possible for those not studying
professionally. This is is my sentiment in plain
words: Je vouS lie livre. Yours, CHARLES
GoUNOD.
A FARMER near Oxford, n. Y, many of whose
apple trees, especially those nearest an adjacent
wood lot, have not thriven as they ought, has
discovered the reason. The other evening, lust
before dark, he saw several cartridges fly into
the trees and begin eating the buds. One par
fridge would strip the buds from an entire
branch at a single visit, and the growth OF a
great number of his trees has been almost en-
tirely stopped.
BILL has been introduced in the Quebec Leg
islature which is making great stir throughout
Canada. 1t provides that a crucifix shall be set
up in a conspicuous place before every witness
box in the Province and that every witness not
Quaker shall be required Ito lift his right
hand in front of the crucfx and to place his left
hand on the book Of the Evangelists, and to
cause him to swear before the crucifix and upon
the Holy EvangeliSts to tell the truth and the
whole truth in the cause in which he is TO be
heard as witness"
OWNING distillery in the Prohibition State of
Iowa is right profitable thing. 1t need not
make whisky. The Iowa law forbids this, and
what is still greater force, the distiler's pool
of the country forhds it, But it is Just as prof.
table for distillery in Iowa not TO make whisky
as to make it-fOr the pool pays the information
al distillery of Des Mones $4,000 year to re-
main idle. The establishment, owned, it is said,
by exemplary Republicans, makes a good round
sum of money by an aSsiduouS observance of
the Iowa prohibitory law.
Sotrr TIME AGO Cen RouIanonr rao,,actad
Ambrose Thomas to examine the various man.
ners in which the "Marseiaise'' was played
and furnished him with the best scoring 1t is
now announced that a committee of musical
composers and professors of the ConServatoire,
under the presidency of VI. AMBROSE Thomas
have adopted an arrangement of the national
hymn which offers the great advantage of re-
spectlng the primitive text while it gives greater
tulness. From May next all French military
bands are to adopt this arrangement.
An interesting case involving a terrible mis-.
carriage of justice will shortly be revised by
the Competent Court at Jicin, in Bohemia Six
years ago the Assize Court at Tabor sentenced
TO sixteen years penal servitude man named
Jelnek, found guilty by the jury of attempting
to poison his wife. After the trial Frau Jelnek
obtained a legal separation, went to America
and married She has Just written to her pa
rents to say that her former husband was limo
cent. She herself put the poison in a plate of
preserves. in order to get up a charge against
Jelinek, and thus to obtain separation.
OUIDA is said by near acquaintance to
work in this way: All her literary work is done
in the early morning. She rises every day at
O'Clock, and goes straight to her library where
she works three or four hours before partali-
ing of any breakfast. Before she begins her
literary work she works herself up into a sort of
literary trance. Her enthusiasm in whatever she
attempts in a literary way is very great, and
her pen moves like lightning over the sheets be-
fore her. She writes very quickly in large
hand and when thoroughly 'enthused,n some
times covers sheet of foolscap paper with only
Two or three lines of five words eacn.
THEY are telling a story of former Dakota
legislator, named Wilbur f. Steel: Steele is
opposed to woman suffrage while his wife is in
favor of it, On one occasion a woman suffrage
bill was before the House and vote was called
for. When the clerk called SteeIe's name he
rose with the dignity of a Demosthenes and be-
gun: Mr.. Speaker am very sorry that can.
not support this bill but" At that moment
Al well dressed woman bent over the gallery rail
and exclaimed in a loud voice. 'W-tlb-ii-r ~
He glanced upward, then turned and said Mr.
Speaker, vote aye" The woman was Steele's
wife.
BUFFALO BILL in going 20 England deviated
from the n3ual custom OF less illustrous travel
ers. Instead Of putting himself ct once into the
hands Of London's tailor, Poole, as soon as he
arrived, he chose TO supply himself with a libe-
raj outfit in America, and he landed on the
other side with any amount of store clothes -
"a uyti ba d.